Kate (KDE3 Architecture)

Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor

Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were
no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue earned the "Big", in
the end :-)

Anyways, more seriously, editing texts is one of the tasks computers are
most often bound to accomplish. Programmers find important to enhance their
usual editors in ways which simplify the coding work. Sometimes the amount
of enhancements brought us sacred monsters like Emacs :-).

Respecting one of its own initial goals (provide most useful tools with the
basic installation), KDE provides Kate, KDE's Advanced Text Editor.
Many programmers will find this editor very useful for coding thanks to the
following features:

Of course, Kate can be very well used as an ordinary editor. If we can call
it ordinary :-). To this respect, Kate provides:

a "Normal" syntax colorisation style

spell checking (with support for multiple language dictionaries, if installed)

list of recently edited files

Kate uses the editor component Kate Part which is also used in KDevelop,
the Integrated Development Environment of KDE.

Thanks to the marvels of Object Oriented Programming principles that KDE
uses extensively by the means of the C++ language, Kate is programmed in
quite a modular manner. Thus, adding a colored syntax highlighting for a
new language isn't a complicated endeavour. Further information can also be
found on the official Kate homepage.